Christiane Fischer, SAP

Next to leading a global team within SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services, Christiane Fischer drives organizational design and change management. It is her mission to support other units optimizing business processes to be a powerful and flexible organization. She enables employees to contribute with their potential by providing methodologies and insight to support continuous transformation of E2E services to increase customer value. Christiane has been part of the lean leadership team in SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services for over three years, following the approach...

Vivek Goel, Tata Consultancy Services

Vivek Goel is a Service Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With over 13 years of experience, he leads a team of 100+ engineers to deliver production support services to more than 13,000 users across the globe. An engineer by qualification, Vivek is also ITIL V3 Service Operations Certified. Vivek distincts himself with his passion for improvement and has received recognition from clients as well as within TCS. See the session about Fat to Fit: Recipe for a Lean IT Service Back to list of...

Matej Kastner, Tieto

From frustrated software developer demotivated by a few years of waterfall development, Matej Kastner has turned into an enthusiastic team leader who strongly believes in iterative methods, transparency and democratic leadership principles. Matej has 15 years of experience in programming, last 6 years working at Tieto, an IT company based in Finland and Sweden. His main focus is to create a great environment for his team to perform at their best. See the workshop about “Lean@TIPS: Lean transformation of large distributed product development” Back to...

Richard Mathis, MEI

After 7 years as a software architect, Richard became the manager of the recognition software department at MEI. For 4 years Richard has been applying Lean principles to the department’s current activities. Richard’s presentation covers the significant challenges and successes at increasing productivity when faced with substantial growth expectations. See the session about Doubling the output of the team and still freeing up resources for the future Back to list of...